Switching out an old-school spinning disk to a modern SSD is by far the best hardware upgrade you can do. Shopping for a good SSD price might seem simple —"you just divide the storage space by the price" — but there's actually a lot of nuance to getting the right SSD. You want one with fast benchmark speeds and fast real world speeds, and it wouldn't hurt if the maker had a reputation for reliability. For the vast majority of intrepid upgraders, Samsung's 840 line is the obvious pick. Maximum PC's Josh Norem wrote about the Samsung 840 Pro back in September:

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Samsung brings considerable resources to bear as the world's largest manufacturer of flash memory, and it has quite a stellar track record in this market, as well... Unlike Corsair and other vendors that must purchase drive controllers from a third party and then tweak them to fit the flash memory that was also purchased from a third party, Samsung builds its own controllers from scratch. It also builds its own NAND flash. And its own DRAM. So the entire package is 100 percent made by Samsung... In our 32-command-queue tests, the Samsung also trumped the Neutron GTX but lost big-time to the SandForce-based drives, as they are simply head and shoulders above everyone right now. These were the only tests in which the Samsung failed to set a new record.

That's a strong recommendation. Amazon's got a pretty awesome sale on the Samsung 840 right now: they're offering the 250GB model for $150 shipped, which comes out to $0.60 a GB. Mind you — this isn't the "Pro" model, but most home users won't notice the difference and in Tom's Hardware benchmark the 840 "vanilla" was second only to the 840 Pro. Pretty great sale, and they probably won't be at this price for much longer. [Amazon]

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A Totally Spoiler-Free Recommendation for Possibly The Greatest RPG Ever

Barrett has the mouth of a nun, Cloud's not really a SOLDIER, mako isn't a metaphor for peak oil, and absolutely no characters you deeply care about die. If you didn't understand that, you've got to play Final Fantasy VII. SquareEnix is selling it for the PC for $6 today, which is half off the normal price. [SquareEnix]

Apple

Last Week's Noise-Canceling Headphone Deal of the Day is Back

Last week we found Gizmodo's choice noise-cancelling headphones on sale over at BuyDig for $100 less than everywhere else. Of course, they sold out within two hours. Well, they're baaaaack! Who knows how long they'll last this time. [BuyDig]

Clothing

I didn't even know they made Spanx for men. Apparently, nobody else did and they didn't sell any, because Spanx is clearing out a whole bunch of stuff on Ebay. You've got three different shirts that'll shape/hide/affect your beer gut — choose whether you want a crew neck Spanx shirt, or a v-neck, or a tank top. These modern girdles will run you $30. [Spanx via Ebay]